Implement generic xattrs for tmpfs filesystems. The Feodra project, while
trying to replace suid apps with file capabilities, realized that tmpfs,
which is used on the build systems, does not support file capabilities and
thus cannot be used to build packages which use file capabilities. Xattrs
are also needed for overlayfs.
The xattr interface is a bit odd. If a filesystem does not implement any
{get,set,list}xattr functions the VFS will call into some random LSM hooks
and the running LSM can then implement some method for handling xattrs.
SELinux for example provides a method to support security.selinux but no
other security.* xattrs.
As it stands today when one enables CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL tmpfs will have
xattr handler routines specifically to handle acls. Because of this tmpfs
would loose the VFS/LSM helpers to support the running LSM. To make up
for that tmpfs had stub functions that did nothing but call into the LSM
hooks which implement the helpers.
This new patch does not use the LSM fallback functions and instead just
implements a native get/set/list xattr feature for the full security.* and
trusted.* namespace like a normal filesystem. This means that tmpfs can
now support both security.selinux and security.capability, which was not
previously possible.
The basic implementation is that I attach a:
struct shmem_xattr {
struct list_head list; /* anchored by shmem_inode_info->xattr_list */
char *name;
size_t size;
char value[0];
};
Into the struct shmem_inode_info for each xattr that is set. This
implementation could easily support the user.* namespace as well, except
some care needs to be taken to prevent large amounts of unswappable memory
being allocated for unprivileged users.
[mszeredi@suse.cz: new config option, suport trusted.*, support symlinks]
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] tioca: Fix assignment from incompatible pointer warnings
[IA64] mca.c: Fix cast from integer to pointer warning
[IA64] setup.c Typo fix "Architechtuallly"
[IA64] Add CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES=y to configs that need it.
[IA64] disable interrupts at end of ia64_mca_cpe_int_handler()
[IA64] Add DMA_ERROR_CODE define.
pstore: fix build warning for unused return value from sysfs_create_file
pstore: X86 platform interface using ACPI/APEI/ERST
pstore: new filesystem interface to platform persistent storage
The syscall also return mount id which can be used
to lookup file system specific information such as uuid
in /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Fix a kconfig unmet dependency warning.
- Remove the comment that identifies which filesystems use POSIX ACL
utility routines.
- Move the FS_POSIX_ACL symbol outside of the BLOCK symbol if/endif block
because its functions do not depend on BLOCK and some of the filesystems
that use it do not depend on BLOCK.
warning: (GENERIC_ACL && JFFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL && NFSD_V4 && NFS_ACL_SUPPORT && 9P_FS_POSIX_ACL) selects FS_POSIX_ACL which has unmet direct dependencies (BLOCK)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Some platforms have a small amount of non-volatile storage that
can be used to store information useful to diagnose the cause of
a system crash. This is the generic part of a file system interface
that presents information from the crash as a series of files in
/dev/pstore. Once the information has been seen, the underlying
storage is freed by deleting the files.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This merges the staging-next tree to Linus's tree and resolves
some conflicts that were present due to changes in other trees that were
affected by files here.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'flock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
locks: turn lock_flocks into a spinlock
fasync: re-organize fasync entry insertion to allow it under a spinlock
locks/nfsd: allocate file lock outside of spinlock
lockd: fix nlmsvc_notify_blocked locking
lockd: push lock_flocks down
Nothing depends on lock_flocks using the BKL
any more, so we can do the switch over to
a private spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Move the EXPORTFS kconfig symbol out of the NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS block
since it provides a library function that can be (and is) used by other
(non-network) filesystems.
This also eliminates a kconfig dependency warning:
warning: (XFS_FS && BLOCK || NFSD && NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS && INET && FILE_LOCKING && BKL) selects EXPORTFS which has unmet direct dependencies (NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a
few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even
there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do
about them, this patch illustrates one of the options:
Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig,
and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets
disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL
code itself is compiled out.
The one exception is file locking, which is practically always
enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces
CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd
mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
smbfs has been scheduled for removal in 2.6.27, so
maybe we can now move it to drivers/staging on the
way out.
smbfs still uses the big kernel lock and nobody
is going to fix that, so we should be getting
rid of it soon.
This removes the 32 bit compat mount and ioctl
handling code, which is implemented in common fs
code, and moves all smbfs related files into
drivers/staging/smbfs.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nobody appears to be interested in fixing autofs3 bugs
any more and it uses the BKL, which is going away.
Move this to staging for retirement. Unless someone
complains until 2.6.38, we can remove it for good.
The include/linux/auto_fs.h header file is still used
by autofs4, so it remains in place.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (205 commits)
ceph: update for write_inode API change
ceph: reset osd after relevant messages timed out
ceph: fix flush_dirty_caps race with caps migration
ceph: include migrating caps in issued set
ceph: fix osdmap decoding when pools include (removed) snaps
ceph: return EBADF if waiting for caps on closed file
ceph: set osd request message front length correctly
ceph: reset front len on return to msgpool; BUG on mismatched front iov
ceph: fix snaptrace decoding on cap migration between mds
ceph: use single osd op reply msg
ceph: reset bits on connection close
ceph: remove bogus mds forward warning
ceph: remove fragile __map_osds optimization
ceph: fix connection fault STANDBY check
ceph: invalidate_authorizer without con->mutex held
ceph: don't clobber write return value when using O_SYNC
ceph: fix client_request_forward decoding
ceph: drop messages on unregistered mds sessions; cleanup
ceph: fix comments, locking in destroy_inode
ceph: move dereference after NULL test
...
Fix trivial conflicts in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
The hugetlb dependencies presently depend on SUPERH && MMU while the
hugetlb page size definitions depend on CPU_SH4 or CPU_SH5. This
unfortunately allows SH-3 + MMU configurations to enable hugetlbfs
without a corresponding HPAGE_SHIFT definition, resulting in the build
blowing up.
As SH-3 doesn't support variable page sizes, we tighten up the
dependenies a bit to prevent hugetlbfs from being enabled. These days
we also have a shiny new SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS, so switch to using
that rather than adding to the list of corner cases in fs/Kconfig.
Reported-by: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
CONFIG_SHMEM off gives you (ramfs masquerading as) tmpfs, even when
CONFIG_TMPFS is off: that's a little anomalous, and I'd intended to make
more sense of it by removing CONFIG_TMPFS altogether, always enabling its
code when CONFIG_SHMEM; but so many defconfigs have CONFIG_SHMEM on
CONFIG_TMPFS off that we'd better leave that as is.
But there is no point in asking for CONFIG_TMPFS if CONFIG_SHMEM is off:
make TMPFS depend on SHMEM, which also prevents TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
shmem_acl.o being pointlessly built into the kernel when SHMEM is off.
And a selfish change, to prevent the world from being rebuilt when I
switch between CONFIG_SHMEM on and off: the only CONFIG_SHMEM in the
header files is mm.h shmem_lock() - give that a shmem.c stub instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some people asked me questions like the following:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:11:21 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> just wondering, any reasons why NILFS2 is one of the miscellaneous
> filesystems and, for example, btrfs, is not in Kconfig?
Actually, nilfs is NOT a filesystem came from other operating systems,
but a filesystem created purely for Linux. Nor is it a flash
filesystem but that for generic block devices.
So, this moves nilfs outside the misc category as I responded in LKML
"Re: Why does NILFS2 hide under Miscellaneous filesystems?"
(Message-Id: <20090716.002526.93465395.ryusuke@osrg.net>).
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
fs/Kconfig file was split into individual fs/*/Kconfig files before
nilfs was merged. I've found the current config entry of nilfs is
tainting the work. Sorry, I didn't notice. This fixes the violation.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Eric Paris
Linus Torvalds
Tony Luck
Aneesh Kumar K.V
David Rientjes
Randy Dunlap
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Arnd Bergmann
Stephen Boyd
Joern Engel
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Kumar Gala
Paul Mundt
Sage Weil
Hugh Dickins
Ryusuke Konishi